I guess I was a little confusing in the OP. I said that I did an HID install, when I was done I stood back and next to the new HIDs, my fogs looked terrible so I restored the fogs. Two seperate things, the HID install andf the fog light restoration.
Thanks for looking out trek, If I didn't know that, I would have been grateful for the warning. As I said before the HIDs did not go in the fogs, you can see the bulb in the after pics. The stock headlight assembly is built for HIDs with the projector lens already built in. Very convenient for me was the stock ballast housing/bracket, made for a very clean install. Here's a little write-up on the install.
Low beams have stock projectors-
Back of headlight-
I used a dremel to cut the smallest possible opening to accommodate the new wiring-
Perfect fit-
Rubber fitting sits nicely-
Bottom of headlight, mounting for stock ballast-
More dremmeling for ballast wiring. Double sided adhesive foam sticker to hold it in place-
Piece of Plexiglas to complete the install-
The headlights have a very defined cutoff. Each bulb has a cutoff that is lower on the left like this ____/-------, It's hard to show with keystrokes but each light's cut off is lower on the left. It's shown in a pic on retrosolutions website. It's so the lights don't blind on coming traffic, but still lights up the right side of the road, like the side walk. I love 'em.
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